Though you might have valid reasons to dislike Word now, and many of the points you make about it being a bad tool for many kinds of writing are correct, as are many of the business decisions you list, your...

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I always remember 3 of us failing the Microsoft Word certification test. We, I worked for a training company, had been offered the chance to pilot these tests when they came out in the late 90's. The sweetener from MS and the awarding body involved was being able to add the MS logo to all of our documentation. Translation, price increase on fees charged, more money all round so pay raises all round. We ran through a mock test and as previously stated, failed. 3 people who used word on a daily basis, running courses and using it in the...

That's been a common complaint of mine too; M$ expect me to work their way and not my way. Someplace upthread, I've raised the point that they've admitted that Windoze8 is designed for touch screens, to the exclusion of all else....

The reality seems not so black-and-white as MSB makes it. Just now, i opened 4 separate AppleWorks Word Processing documents in Pages ’09 version 4.0.3. Three of them opened with fully correct formatting, other than a font substitution. The 4th. had messed-up formatting, but the text was all there without having to dig deep into the source file (this one was a copy/paste from a website, which may have carried its own formatting baggage). I did this on a G4 PPC Mac with OS 10.4.11 Tiger installed. AppleWorks 6 is also installed on this machine, so i did side-by-side viewings...

Hello, but it's lonely over here waving my 'I love Word' flag. Because I do like Word, and I think it's a great program to use for writing novels. (Don't love Big Brother Microsoft, but that's a whole other story.)...

"Someplace upthread, I've raised the point that they've admitted that Windoze8 is designed for touch screens, to the exclusion of all else." In that case why have I been using Windows 8 with a GUI desktop and no touch input devices for the last two years? Again, like the Lords of the Copybook Headings, I say that touch is another interface for Windows 8, not an exclusive means of interacting with the system. Heck, it's even got a command window yep, Textronix 4014 emulation mode with the background set to dark green and text as white Lucida for old-school types...